Rebekah Jones was fired by the Florida Department of Health in May after, she claims, refusing to comply with “unethical” requests. Jones ran the dashboard of COVID-19 data for the state of Florida, a system that was acclaimed throughout the country. After she was fired, all of the data on the coronavirus in Florida was removed from the website with many claiming that hiding the information helped the governor go ahead with phased reopening of the state. Jones has now released her own version of the dashboard, using the information on the DoH website that is buried in reports and not easily accessible or understood by the average reader.
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